The number of patients hospitalized for Covid-19 in the USA has fallen to 16,700, reaching the lowest point of the pandemic so far –

The number of Americans hospitalized for Covid has reached the lowest level of the pandemic as the virus continues to recede in the US and many begin to return to “normal” life after being dominated by the virus for two years.

The Department of Health and Human Services reports that 16,760 Americans are hospitalized with Covid each day, minimizing a new pandemic, according to an analysis by NBC.

The sign comes after weeks of dwindling Covid cases and deaths caused by Omicron’s record wave that hit the United States and much of the world during the winter.

Combined with the relatively high adoption and recall among Americans of the Covid vaccine, and the mild nature of the Omicron variant, the number of Americans requiring more substantial treatment for Covid has dropped significantly.

There are an average of 31,000 Covid cases a day in America on Friday, and that rate has held steady for the past two weeks.

Virus deaths and hospital admissions are on the rise, down 21% last week to 704 per day. This is the lowest daily death rate since August.

Kovid hospitals in the US have collapsed, and 49 out of 50 states have seen a decline in the number of hospitalized patients in the past two weeks.

The only outlier, Connecticut, experienced an increase of only 3 percent and has a low rate of hospitalizations per 100,000 population.

West Virginia and Delaware are the only states in America with at least ten Covid hospitalizations per 100,000 people per day, which is still a low rate.

The actual numbers may be even lower because hospital admissions are often an unreliable measure. Research has shown that between 25 and 50 percent of recorded hospitalizations for COVID-19 were actually people who were being treated for another condition but tested positive while there.

The previous hospital admission record was 16,808 in June, NBC reported. At the time, the United States was between a devastating wave and Covid waves, which concluded in early 2021, and the Delta variant still had little impact in America.

As the delta variant came along and became the dominant strain, cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the United States began to skyrocket, ending a relatively quiet period during the pandemic that many believed would soon be over.

However, there are early signs that the United States will not suffer the same fate this time, and that recent lows may drop further over time.

The “hidden” BA.2 variant will trigger the next major outbreak in the United States, as has happened in parts of Europe and Asia in recent months.

It is now dominant in the United States, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting earlier this week that it accounted for 55% of the case increase in the United States.

Despite the rapid growth of the variant, it had no significant impact on the number of cases, with less than five percent of cases the variant becoming dominant within weeks.

Daily infections fluctuated around 30,000 in the second half of March and are now starting in April.

When the Delta variant began to emerge in the Americas, it caused devastating waves in the Midwest before spreading across the country, pushing the country back into the fight with Covid.

In the Harvard Journal last month, Dr. “We see almost nothing about the transition to BA.2 prevalence,” said Jacob Lemieux of the increasing number of BA.2 staffs.

The stealth variant, which earned its nickname for its ability to evade detection by some sequencing methods, is considered the most contagious Covid version to date, but as mild as the BA.1 version that Omicron most recently conquered. earth year.

It first appeared in early 2022, and many feared it would cause huge surges around the world. While it caused a slight increase in cases in parts of Europe and Asia, it did not cause as much damage as its predecessor.